Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its ...

A discovery about the mechanisms that enable the immune system to sustain long-term protection could revolutionize treatment for chronic disease and cancer.

A groundbreaking £1.65million gene therapy treatment offering hope for sickle cell disease patients has been approved for use ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

STEM Potential supports you through years 10 and 12 with insightful lectures, subject-specific workshops and a non-residential summer school. STEM Potential is a multi-year programme of activities and ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ...

A score that measures airflow into and out of your lungs can help diagnose COPD and determine the best treatments. Share on Pinterest PongMoji/Getty Images Spirometry is an important tool for ...

UK pharma major AstraZeneca’s (LSE: AZN) Fasenra (benralizumab), with its highly anticipated Phase III data to be showcased at the 2025 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, is set to transform the chronic ...

Treatment for CLL continues to change. Doctors are using newer targeted cancer drugs. This means a stem cell transplant is now a less common treatment for CLL. You have a transplant using donor cells ...

MACE incidence in patients with COPD initiating triple therapy was 11.3/100/year vs 8.7/100/year in patients using LABA-ICS. In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the first ...

Australian researchers have discovered that multiple chemicals found in cigarette smoke and e-cigarettes alter the function of a key type of immune cell found in the lungs. The study, to be published ...